Bug 403255

Summary:	net-misc/ntp - ntpdate is deprecated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sergio <hujuice>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sergio 2012-02-12 10:46:25 UTC

The net-misc/ntp ebuild set up a ntp-client (boot) service with the goal to correct a heavily wrong system clock.
But the used command (ntpdate) is deprecated and should be replaced by 'ntpd -gq' or 'sntp -Ss'. This is what I read here: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate

Personal considerations follow.

IMO, a clean way to receive the suggestion could be change the default configuration in this way:
NTPCLIENT_CMD="ntpd"
NTPCLIENT_OPTS="-g -q"
and then introduce a ntp-wait step in the initscript.
It allows also to use the ntp configuration during boot, but could make the boot process appreciably slow.

A rough way could be simply change the default configuration as follow:
NTPCLIENT_CMD="sntp"
NTPCLIENT_OPTS="-s -S \
        0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org \
        2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org"
It's efect is more similar to the previous one.

Regards,
Sergio

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge and install net-misc/ntp
2. rc-update add ntp-client boot
3.
Actual Results:  
The initial time sinchronization is performed with the deprecated ntpdate command.

Expected Results:  
The suggestions given at http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate are followed.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-02-13 16:09:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21527 ***